Show i Confessions 1 I Of a Bride The Jealousy of a Snake Woman Sets a Trap for Unwary Me I certainly was in no io o hurry to spoil the unbecoming smile which Katherine Miller bestowed on B Bibs Babs bs and me inc In fact I actually enjoyed It It advertised advertised advertised adver adver- our open enmity We didn't need to pretend that we didn't see each other other oth oth- er r any ny more mor I hoped that that Bob would catch the full meaning of the situation but he didn't even notice It Thus men miss most of the byplay which is al always always always al- al ways going on between women I fancy Katherine herself was vastly relieved to Lo hear the baby jabber an answer to Bobs Bob's question She wouldn't have been had she a syllable of the string of words which Babs Dabs combined combined com corn in one according to a system of her ler own Sounds like the French the kind cind I heard the coolies speak speak over over there here laughed Bob himself not un un- To make the child forget her tr troubles Bob would have taken her heror herfor herfor for or a lively romp but she clung to me tightly and fixed a pair pall o of very sober blue eyes on the pretty lady In Jn the thin frilled frock The stare of those baby eyes stirred some fear perhaps in the soul of the woman I suspected of beIng being beng be- be Ing ng the mother She turned abruptly to o my husband and impatiently I wish you'd come along Bob Dob Chrys and I 1 are going to select our ouro I staterooms o on n the liner and we need a aman's amans amans aman's I IMy mans man's advice v c ct t terribly I My dear Katherine I wouldn't venture venure ven- ven ture ure a suggestion Bob Dob protested Since the war some of those southern ships hips are queer tubs Accommodations cramped ramped and crowded And believe me I wouldn't risk a bet as to which side ide th the breeze breeze- Oh come on Come on on was Miss I Millers Miller's gay singsong and she appropriated appropriated B BObs BOb's bs b's arm leading him off toward oward the house ran the wee weene's ones one's comment on their departure I But Dut I couldn't manage to answer the mv my tears were her he- soft oft ii- ii r cil-r curls s' s I didn't know wi whether j the the- I Iwas I was the more sorry for the baby or for myself I could find but one thing to be glad about bout the fatherless bairn was too young oung to remember the tragedy of that horrible hour My heart yearned over the baby and andI I resolved to mother her myself I set seto setto setto to o work at once to keep my resolve little ittle dreaming how my devotion to the child hild would be Interpreted and twisted for my undoing Thereafter Katherine Miller deliberately deliberately deliberately proceeded to Interrupt my I morning talks with my Of I course she soon succeeded in spoiling them completely I had come to believe that the half hour before luncheon which Bob spent with the baby and me had meant a great deal to him I had that he too felt the strange strang attraction be between between be- be tween us which I could not resist I be-I But as soon as his visits ceased to seem a chance and took the aspect of ofa ofa ofa a plan Bob Dob stopped coming to the blue garden So like Wee a man A Awfully worried about the conventions I said In my bitter disappointment And I only did the usual thing When a girl who Is ii In love begins to reason about the conduct of her lover she can be relied upon to reason wrongly A bride goes even further astray A matron goes the limit I I 1 reasoned that Bob Dob didn't want to let Katherine find him talking to me regularly regularly regularly regu regu- Probably the tr truth th was that Bob didn't want to meet Katherine but my jealousy wouldn't let me dwell on that possibility Bob Dob h d abandoned me What was worse wore little Babs Dabs missed her big play play- fellow Morning after morning Play Play-I she asked where he was I had to double my efforts to amuse her In the care of her I discovered a ajoy ajoy ajoy joy I had missed for foJ months So we I sent her nurse away for a vacation I and I assumed sole charge of the child I INo No o real mother Was vas ever more devoted I My service was gladly gadly given nevertheless ne erthe j i less an evil chance seized it and ma made maae of It a net to trap me I To be continued J I |